MargenThere are mosquitoes in Greenland, in Norway, in Scotland, in Alaska. In Iceland, not one. It's one of the few inhabited territories on the planet — along with Antarctica — where a mosquito will never bite you.
The most accepted explanation lies in its fickle climate: in Iceland the weather freezes and thaws several times a season. When the mosquito times its cycle — egg, larva, pupa in the water — a false thaw wakes it too early and the next frost kills it. The maths never works out.
At the Icelandic Museum of Natural History they keep a single specimen in a jar of alcohol: one a scientist caught in the eighties inside the cabin of a plane that had just arrived from Greenland. It's the only mosquito in Iceland, and it's dead.
Source: Icelandic Institute of Natural History